egg bound

[DeWayne Edgin]

I have a Silver LF hen that has a swollen butt. It is so big that she drags it around when she walks or in her case waddles. Is this an egg bound hen and if so what can i do to help her? My Silvers are small hens but they all lay huge eggs.

[greeneggsandham]

Well, if she is egg bound, I have read that soaking them in warm water baths sometimes helps.  Not sure how often you have to do it though. 
I also don't know how you can know for sure if she is eggbound or maybe just laying internally.  I have a hen that I believe lays internally.  There was a point where she was dragging the ground but she was also laying some flat sided eggs.  So, I took her out of the coop and out of the extra lighting and made sure she had the extra oyster shell she wanted.  She would eat a pile of oystershell daily and it seemed to help.   I read that their body will just absorb the extra yolks they lay.  Idk.  I thought maybe the extra lighting was making her produce more eggs than she had calcium for.  She appears to be fine now.

[Mike Gilbert]

   Idk???

[John]

  Idk???

Mike,
It's ironic that we didn't know what IDK stands for.  I looked it up...
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/IDK

IDK
1.(Internet slang, text messaging) I don't know.

 
Now I can add it to my list of other three letter initialisms, like FYI, DIY, CIA, KGB and IGA

[Mike Gilbert]

  I guess when a person is retired, has the time, and knows how to spell they don't feel the need for it.
  I was pretty sure IDK  wasn't  "It's Dirty Kumquats."   But then I consider BBS to be just plain BS too, so it's probably just me.   Eccentric, that is.

[jeeperspeepers-r4us]

Look up" waterbelly in chickens ", if she feels like a balloon filled with water, you may need to drain it.
Lots of information about waterbelly & egg bound.
my Araucana with it died and I opened her up, she was filled with what looked like scrambled eggs. If I ever see it again I will cull. JMO.

[jeeperspeepers-r4us]

I must have jinxed myself, came home to a prolapsed hen.

[HarryS]

There is no cure that is permanent that I have found.

[jeeperspeepers-r4us]

There is no cure that is permanent that I have found.

I don't think she will recover, however, she is DBF and he needs to decide her fate.
She is a beautifull rumpless, double tufted, white and lays a big blue egg.
hate to loose her

[John]

DBF

Divorced Black Female
That doesn't make sense to me, so please spell it out for those of us that have no clue what all the initials stand for.

[Birdcrazy]

Dead Butt Fowl?

[Mike Gilbert]

I think it stands for dumb boy friend or maybe dear boy friend.  This ain't twitter folks, there is plenty of room to spell things out.

[John]

First I figured DB stood for dark brown, as in Leghorn, but gave up on that and checked Wikipedia and this is what I had to choose from...

DBF may refer to:
dBASE filename extension
Detection By Fire
Divorced Black Female in personal ads
dBf — Decibel as referring to 1 femtowatt
dBF — Decibel as in "dB from Full"
Drude-Born-Federov form of constitutive equations
Distributed Bellman-Ford a Distance-vector routing protocol
Danmarks Badminton Forbund (Denmark's Badminton Union)
Diesel Boats Forever (Diesel Boats Forever)
Design/Build/Fly aircraft design competition
Oracle tablespace filename extension
Distributed feedback laser - a type of a laser

Gordon may be the winner with his guess

[greeneggsandham]

Ok, I'll play.  DBF.  Double breasted female?  But aren't they all? 

[DeWayne Edgin]

Thanks everyone for your help! I guess nature will take over from here. There was some pretty good stuff or (PGS) posted on here to.